Inside the house the florist has finished, an orchestra is playing in the hall or library, everything is in perfect order.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Another bill being prepared in the house of lords, enjoining the subjects to wear the woollen manufacture at certain seasons of the year, a petition was presented against it by the silk-weavers of London and Canterbury, assembled in a tumultuous manner at Westminster.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

A paper which he wrote on the subject was placed in the hands of leading English Catholics.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

"Possession is nine points of the law," said Frank to himself, as he put the letter aside,—thinking at the same time that possession in the hands of Lizzie Eustace included certainly every one of those nine points.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

When the Duke of Chatelherault resigned the Regency to the Queen Dowager, the Castle of Edinburgh was put in the hands of Lord Erskine.
— from The Works of John Knox, Volume 1 (of 6) by John Knox